Giuseppe Casalini (Faenza,1886-Forlì,1957), “The Russian Greyhound”, bronze sculpture.

Giuseppe Casalini (Faenza,1886-Forlì,1957), “The Russian Greyhound”, bronze sculpture with marble base, signed “Casalini” on the dog’s tail. Excellent state of conservation. Some restorations visible on the marble base.

Giuseppe Casalini is remembered among the greatest sculptors of Romagna of the first half of the 900th century. Trained at the School of Arts and Crafts in Faenza, together with peers who would achieve national fame (Nonni, who worked with him, as a boy, in the homonymous cabinet-making workshop Casalini), he attended the so-called “Cenacolo di Baccarini”, together with figures such as Drei, Rambelli, Nonni Gatti, Bucci, etc. In 1906 he began attending the Brera Academy in Milan, supporting his studies by working as a ceramist at some Lombard furnaces. A practice, that of a ceramics modeler, which accompanied him for the rest of his life. His studies at Brera led him to embrace the Lombard trend aimed at affirming both the themes of classicism and those of an avant-garde that tended to reconcile a naturalism oscillating between expressionism and symbolism. In 1908 he returned to Faenza, then moved to Imola. He participated in many exhibitions and competitions, obtaining an important prize with the sculpture in question, “The Russian Greyhound”, in a Bologna exhibition organized by the famous Bologna foundation “Francesco Francia”.

Provenance: Faenza, Private Collection.

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